An absolutely stunning show of ignorance and racial identity confusion occurred on a recent reunion episode of the "Reality TV" show called, 'Love & Hip Hop: Miami,' which left me and I'm sure many others of the Trans Atlantic slave trade diaspora perplexed and absolutely dumbfounded.
I thought the English colonizers had done a pretty thorough job of taking "Black" African men and woman and turning them into confused and disoriented creatures with no heritage or identity, but after witnessing the above exchange between Amar La Negra and Young Hollywood, who is one of her male co-stars on the show, each giving their own personal perceptions about race and nationality, I now believe the Spanish did a much more complete and thorough job of mentally destroying the Africans whom they enslaved. And I mean enslaved in the most strict sense of the word.
To be a slave is simply a physical state of being from which one can easily escape or be liberated, but to be enslaved is about psychological resignation and acceptance to a subjugated state of mind that once achieved transcends the physical or condition of bondage. It's that point where the physical chains come off, but psychologically they're still present and as binding as ever.
Frankly, I'm getting tired of having to explain the persistence and inherited descendancy of race to Spanish speaking descendants of African slaves how neither speaking Spanish or being mixed cannot negate the dominance of the African genes within you. The following clip by well-known self-identifying "Black-Puerto Rican" You Tuber, Angel Ramirez-Jordan, manages to do an excellent job of explaining the madness being demonstrated in the exchange.
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